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As a techno artist, my influences come from Mr Oizo, Claude VonStroke and Tiga, to name a few. However, as a kid of the 80s, most of my musical influences come from 1984 – the year that gave us two of the biggest Christmas songs: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” from Band Aid, and “Last Christmas” from Wham.
Every year we see at least one new Christmas song, but it would be nice if we could have something alternative, to go with all of the campy ballads.
To express this, I’ve gone back to these two iconic (read: overplayed) Christmas tracks and put together my own alternative take on the Christmas beat.
But don’t be misled – far from being a pop classic, this is a HiFi Brown-style techno throwdown.
I’ve also included two remixes of Lucky Glitter, the closing track from my Cancer album.
The first remix (by London’s Occams Laser) is a deep synth-powered 80s experience, while the second remix (by Berlin’s Sicker Man) leans in and out between noisy chaos and quiet melancholy.

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For his debut album, HiFi Brown has fished out a vast assortment of samples from his pop-filled ocean that take you on a flying carpet ride of (metallic!) sounds. Recorded in Vancouver, mixed and mastered in Berlin, „Cancer“ sends the listener on a hypnotic ride in the bat mobile through a sinisterly blissful comic universe. Manically cackling super villains tip toe down acoustic fire escapes, glowing synth comets illuminate the night’s sky above, shattering echoes accumulate into card houses of dizzying heights. From the depths of the catacombs, beats and basses reverberate, emulating the dark lure of endless Berlin techno nights.

HiFi Brown‘s debut album is an iconoclast collage – dense, personal, grinning cunningly and glimmering with nostalgia – meanwhile interlaced with the melancholy one may feel on an early morning dance floor, when all those bodies have been danced to exhaustion and heads hang longingly in far away galaxies.